delicious (website)
del.icio.us is a social bookmarking, social software web service for storing and sharing web bookmarks. The site came online in late 2003 and was developed by Joshua Schachter, co-maintainer of Memepool. According to del.icio.us/doc/about:
- "del.icio.us is a social bookmarks manager. It allows you to easily add sites you like to your personal collection of links, to categorize those sites with keywords, and to share your collection not only between your own browsers and machines, but also with others."
Everything posted to del.icio.us is publicly viewable; it is not a tool for storing private bookmark collections. Many people use del.icio.us to publish "linkblogs" on their weblogs.
del.icio.us uses a non-hierarchical keyword categorization system where users can tag each of their bookmarks with a number of freely chosen keywords (cf. folksonomy). A combined view of everyone's bookmarks with a given tag is available; for instance, the URL "http://del.icio.us/tag/wiki" displays all of the most recent links tagged "wiki". Its collective nature also makes it possible to view bookmarks added by similar-minded users.
The emphasis on recent additions makes it a convenient mechanism for propagating Internet memes and trends.
del.icio.us has a simple HTML interface with human readable URLs, as well as a REST API and RSS feeds for web syndication.
Use of the service is currently free. The source code of the site is not available, but entered data is freely downloadable through the API.
del.icio.us was aided in its rise to popularity by its unconventional domain name. Currently, del.icio.us is the most popular website using such a domain name.
External links
- del.icio.us
- an introduction for new users
- Absolutely Del.icio.us - Complete Tool Collection
- Trendalicious A near-real-time view of website popularity trends (Del.icio.us API)
- populicious
- Snapshot of what URLs that are being linked are popular among the users
- delicious-discuss mailing list archive
- del.icio.us Smart Tagging Plugin for WordPress
- Durl, an RSS feed for del.icio.us URL queries
- Delicious: a del.icio.us client made in China
- Foxylicious (integration with Mozilla Firefox)
- Bunnyhug Updater del.icio.us
- New Del.icio.us popular sites
- WYSIWYG tool for del.icio.us
- Cocoalicious: A del.icio.us client for Mac OS X
- ephemeral pheromonal del.icio.us-ness
- a Perl Del.icio.us import script
- de.lirio.us an open-source clone of del.icio.us. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
- sa.bros.us Open source (PHP/MySQL) sustitution in Spanish
- LiveMarks an AJAX application that displays recently popular and dynamically loads new bookmarks
- del.icio.us surf allows "channelsurfing" of del.icio.us posts by specifying a tag or user